Thursday, April 19, 2007

Quick Question and a Favor

Post updated and bumped to top of page.Originally published 4/18/07 @ 9:54 PM

Question: How many newspapers in this country, while publishing long-winded editorials criticizing America's glorification of violence, will have that stupid-ass picture of that nutcake splashed across their front pages tomorrow morning?

Favor: To anyone considering posting any of those pictures on their websites and blogs, I ask you to reconsider. If you've already posted them, take them down. Together we can do our part to prevent this psychotic little dipshit from achieving the immortality he so desperately craved.

Getting the major networks to understand is a lost cause, of course. But it can be our way of sending one last "Fuck you, asshole!" to the deceased before his body's decomposition in hell is complete.

NEW YORK --NBC News' decision to air some of the video and pictures sent by Virginia Tech shooter ChoSeung-Hui had immediate repercussions Thursday, with family members of victims canceling their plans to appear on the "Today" show.

The family members "were very upset" with NBC for airing the images, "Today" host Meredith Vieira said Thursday.

Cho, 23, sent a package filled with rambling, hate-filled video and written messages, and several pictures of him posing with a gun, to NBC News on the morning of his killing spree. It arrived in the mail Wednesday, and contents began airing on the network with the "Nightly News."

"We've made the decision because by showing some of this material, perhaps it will make us understand or answer the question why, why did it happen," he said.

Why did it happen?

It's quite simple to explain, actually.

Say you own a factory that makes toasters. It would be nice if 100% of your toasters worked 100% of the time. But, the reality of the situation is, a certain (hopefully low) percentage of the toasters you produce will prove to be defective, and you're going to have some disappointed customers having to deal with burnt toast.

Legislation requiring bakers to make their bread burn-proof won't change that simple truth.

Lest we forget at our own peril, these are the same cowardly fucks who refused to show the Mohammed cartoons "out of respect for the Muslim community".

Of course, if they thought for one minute that publishing the images of those cartoons could have stirred up the kind of emotional response with the general public, which the left so desperately needs in order to advance its political agenda, they'd have been deemed worthy of Page 1, above-the-fold status and would have been the lead story in the network evening news broadcasts for days.

NEW YORK - With a backlash developing against the media for airing sickening pictures from Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui, Fox News Channel said Thursday it would stop and other networks said they would severely limit their use.

What it is...

Opinion and commentary, garnished with a sprig of cynicism, served with a heaping side order of sarcasm, and washed down with a tall glass of common sense, by a gun-toting political refugee from the People's Progressive Republic of Massachusetts, currently residing in New Hampshire and doing what he can to keep the Granite State beautiful and free.